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Excellence and Excellence Gaps in American Schools

Excellence and Excellence Gaps in American Schools. Jonathan Plucker May 20, 2014 EWA National Symposium Nashville, Tennessee. The 21 st century. The 21 st Century ….

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Excellence and Excellence Gaps in American Schools

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  1. Excellence and Excellence Gaps in American Schools Jonathan Plucker May 20, 2014 EWA National Symposium Nashville, Tennessee

  2. The 21st century

  3. The 21st Century … • … is clearly proving to be a brave new world where skills and talents that previously helped us achieve success need to be rethought.

  4. Who Gets U.S. Patents?

  5. Excellence in the u.s. and other countries

  6. Percent of Advanced Scores (625+) on TIMSS Math Assessments

  7. Percent of Advanced Scores (625+) on TIMSS Science Assessments

  8. Percent of Advanced Scores (625+) on TIMSS Grade 4 Reading Assessment

  9. Percent of Students Scoring Advanced on 2011 NAEP Grade 4 Math

  10. Percent of Students Scoring Advanced on 2011 NAEP Grade 8 Math

  11. Percent of Students Scoring Advanced on 2011 NAEP Grade 4 Reading

  12. Percent of Students Scoring Advanced on 2011 NAEP Grade 8 Reading

  13. Why Excellence Gaps?

  14. Minimum Competency vs. Excellence Gaps by State Blue: Minimum competency gap Maroon: Excellence gap

  15. Talent on theSidelines Results

  16. NAEP % Advanced Reading Grade 4 - Race/Ethnicity

  17. NAEP % Advanced Reading Grade 8 - Race/Ethnicity

  18. NAEP % Advanced Math Grade 4 - Race/Ethnicity

  19. NAEP % Advanced Math Grade 8 - Race/Ethnicity 22.3

  20. NAEP % Advanced Math Grade 4 - SES

  21. NAEP % Advanced Math Grade 8 - SES

  22. Poverty

  23. Poverty, Poverty, Poverty

  24. DeNavas-Walt, Carmen, Bernadette D. Proctor, and Jessica C. Smith, U.S. Census Bureau, Current Population Reports, P60-239, Income, Poverty, and Health Insurance Coverage in the United States: 2010, U.S. Government Printing Office, Washington, DC,2011.

  25. Child Poverty Rates in Industrialized Countries Source: UNICEF Innocenti Research Centre (2012), ‘Measuring Child Poverty: New league tables of child poverty in the world’s rich countries’, InnocentiReport Card 10, UNICEF Innocenti Research Centre, Florence.

  26. Child Poverty Rates in Industrialized Countries Source: UNICEF Innocenti Research Centre (2012), ‘Measuring Child Poverty: New league tables of child poverty in the world’s rich countries’, InnocentiReport Card 10, UNICEF Innocenti Research Centre, Florence.

  27. State-by-State … • States with over 50% of students eligible for FRL: 17 • States with over 40% of students eligible: 35 • Range from 24% to 72% • States with majority-minority school populations: 13 • States with near-majority-minority school populations: 10 • Range from 8-92% Source: NCES, Condition of Education, 2011 and 2012

  28. Implications and Interventions

  29. Big Implication • We can predict with high accuracy that a talented student who is poor and/or Hispanic, Black, or Native American will not perform at advanced levels in K-12 education. • Hence “persistent talent underclass.”

  30. Implications • As income disparity reaches unprecedented levels, we fear a vicious circle of EGs feeding greater income gaps, feeding greater EGs, feeding greater income gaps, etc. • The global warming of education? • i.e., people are resigned to this inequality • Andy Smarick’s recent thoughts about giftedness and the American consciousness

  31. Recommendations • Two questions when covering education: • How will the proposed policy impact our highest achieving students? • How will the proposed policy help more students achieve at the highest levels? • Publish advanced test scores and excellence gaps whenever results are released.

  32. Recommendations • Indicators for excellence and excellence gaps must be included in state accountability systems • 21st century skills need to be incorporated into these systems • These are the skills other countries envy • Aggressively address low-hanging policy issues • Anti-acceleration policies, rigid kindergarten age cut-offs

  33. Warren Buffett • Fortune, May 2, 2013: • No manager operates his or her plants at 80% efficiency when steps could be taken that would increase output. And no CEO wants male employees to be underutilized when improved training or working conditions would boost productivity. … If obvious benefits flow from helping the male component of the workforce achieve its potential, why in the world wouldn’t you want to include its counterpart? ... We've seen what can be accomplished when we use 50% of our human capacity. If you visualize what 100% can do, you'll join me as an unbridled optimist about America's future. • Sure, but 50% is wildly optimistic.

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